Trap
Grease Traps
Installation and scheduled pump-outs, run by the same crews and vacuum trucks that handle our septic work. A trap that gets pumped on a schedule stays invisible. One that does not becomes the reason a kitchen loses a shift.
What separates in a trap you never see
A grease trap is a simple piece of plumbing doing a simple job: it slows wastewater down long enough for fats, oils and grease to do what they do naturally, which is float. Cooler water from a sink or a fryer drop meets the trap, the grease rises to the top, the heavier solids settle to the bottom, and the water in between is what keeps moving toward the septic tank or the sewer line. That separation only works while there is room in the trap for it to happen. Once the grease layer builds up and the solids fill in from below, the trap stops buying that time and starts passing grease straight through, which is usually how a kitchen finds out about it, as a backed up floor drain during a dinner rush. We install traps as part of the same published service list that covers septic tanks, treatment plants and lift stations, and Charlie has been running that side of the work since 1998.
What a pump-out actually involves
Our vacuum trucks are the same ones you would see on a residential septic call, because the pump-out itself is the same basic operation: open the trap, pull the grease and settled solids out with the truck, and haul them away properly instead of leaving them to work into your lines. We check the baffles while the trap is open, since a cracked or missing baffle is what lets grease bypass the separation entirely no matter how often the trap gets pumped. How often a particular trap needs that done depends on the kitchen behind it, how much fryer volume runs through, and the size of the trap itself, so we would rather look at yours and set a schedule than guess at a number over the phone.
Seal Digging, Authorized Consolidated Treatment Systems dealer. Call (601) 845-0484.
Before it backs up
Downtime is the real cost, not the pump-out
A grease trap that backs up rarely gives much warning. One day the floor drain runs fine, the next it is standing water under the line, and a kitchen cannot run service with the floor flooding. That is the actual reason a scheduled pump-out is worth having on the calendar instead of waiting for a problem: the cost of the visit is nothing against the cost of the hours a kitchen loses closing a station or turning customers away.
“We install Treatment Plants, Septic tanks, Grease traps, Lift stations, and much more,” is how Seal Digging describes its own work, and it is not a marketing line so much as a description of one fleet doing several related jobs. If you are also running a lift station or a commercial wastewater system on the same property, it is one call and one crew that already knows your site, rather than three separate contractors learning it for the first time.
Since 1968
Fifty-eight years of the same trucks in Rankin County
Seal Digging Service has run its own vacuum trucks and a tracked excavator out of Florence since 1968, and Charlie, our longest-serving crew member, has been part of that fleet since 1998. We are also an authorized dealer and service provider for Consolidated Treatment Systems, so if your property runs a Multi-Flo, Nayadic or Sybr-AER unit alongside its grease trap, you are talking to people who install and maintain those systems rather than meeting them for the first time. We hold a 4.2 rating across 24 Google reviews, most of them from septic and treatment plant customers who called us back years after the original install.
Same trucks, whatever else your property runs
A lot of the properties we pump a grease trap for also have a lift station or a commercial wastewater system on the same lot, and plenty of the houses we service septic tanks for through routine pumping have a small trap of their own out back. Tell us what you are looking at and we will tell you honestly whether it needs a look this week or can wait for the schedule.